Town. South Minster, the mother church of Nottinghamshire, was begun in 1108 under the Archbishop of York and retains all 3 Norman towers. Charles I spent his last night of freedom at the 17th century Saracen's Head.

Town adjoining Nottingham, mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for the year 920, when Edward the Elder ordered a bridge across the River Trent, and a borough to be built on the south side of the river.